Zindagi Apni Jab Is Shakl Se Guzri Ghalib — Mirza Ghalib
Meaning
O Ghalib, when our life has passed in such a wretched condition, why should we even bother to remember that we once had a God?
Explanation
In this couplet, Ghalib presents a daring yet profoundly intimate complaint to the Divine, born from a lifetime of relentless hardship. He reflects with bitter irony that if life had to be endured in such sheer misery and neglect, what comfort is left in remembering that one even had a caring Creator watching over them? It is not an expression of disbelief, but the tender, aching grievance of a suffering soul who feels abandoned by the very God he trusted.
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